The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-09-10
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
There are s72 colored preachers In

There are 672 colored preachers In
the city of Raleigh. N. G.
The test of your Christian charactsr
should be that you are a joy-bearing
angel to the world. -Beecher.
We never graduate in religion. b.
cause the nearer we are to God the
more we see there is to be learned.
Wesleyan University receives $685.
900 from the estate of Oliver Hoyt, and
Cornell College, Iowa, receives tl0.-
00o
The Rev. DR.. A. c. Hirsch, Of Gin.
cinnati. has accepted the Presidency Of
the University of the Pacific at an an
nual salary of $4,000.
More than one-half of the Congre-
gational ministers in the United States
engaged in pastoral work are home
missionairies-l.57i In all. Tho pro-
portion is increasing.
There are few signs in souls state
more alarming than that Of religious
indifference; that is, the spirit of think
ing all religions equally true, the real
meaning of which is, that all religions
are equally false.-F W. Robertson.
The Episcopal Church in Virginia
claims to have 5000 celared enmmuni-
cants, who have 80 places Of worship
exclusively their own. In West Vir-
ginia, ten years ago, the Episcopal
churches had 1900 communicates, now
the number is 2.7l9.-- United hesbyte-
| rian
| If member is bent on running
your church, let him run, only keep
him in the right track. II he takes =
notion not to do that, thcn cut the
traces. But so long as he is headed In
the right direction, don't be too par
ticular about his gait or paces>--ls-
terror.
There is law in Washington Ter
ritory compelling the teachers Of pub
lie schools to teach physiology and hy-
gicne, and II they do not teach the
same they can not draw school money:
also, if the pupils will not study those
studies they can be expelled from tho
school.
To know God as the beginning and
end, the root and cause, the giver, the
enabler the love and joy and perfect
good, the present, one existence In all
things and degrees and conditions, is
life. And faith in its simplest, truest.
mightiest form, Is TO do His will in the
one thing revealing itself at the mo-
ment as duty George Macdonald.
"A teacher of one of the Boston pri-
mary schools was instructing class In
the first rudiments of geography, and,
speaking of the poles, she said: II
wonder if any of you can tell me the
names of the polesp" Yes, ma'am;
cam said bright little fellow, the
son of well-known electrician.
"Well, Johnny. what are theyp'
"Pos' tive and neg'tivcl" came the au-
thoritative response. = Golden Days.
"A typographical error appeared In
the Portland Sunday Times, a few
years ago, which resulted more happily
than is usual in such cases. In an
nouncing a church supper and concert,
the word concert was perverted to
dance. A young man who read the
item and was attracted by tho dance,
strolled into the vestry. He became -
much Interested that he aftcrward At.
tended church services there, professed
religion, and is now a highly esteemed
clergyman.
In ZIG the First Presbyterian
Church was formed, and In 1919 the
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